Manufacturing issues are one of the top reasons that we see warranty returns and loss of market share in the electronics industry. Issues like supply chain failures and printed circuit board assembly ...

San Francisco — Not to be upstaged by fellow top-tier EDA vendors Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Mentor Graphics Corp., each of which launched a major design-for-manufacturing (DFM) tool in recent ...

Know your limits: DFM should help you to understand the limits of your manufacturing partner and operate effectively within those limits. Don't dump your tool flow: Find ways to make it ...

Monterey, Calif. – The traditional chip production model is disintegrating, with the communications gap widening among the IC design, photomask and fab functions, equipment makers and EDA vendors ...

As semiconductor components continue to shrink, the challenges associated with design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) increase. The complexity of the IC design and ...

Injection molding, one of the most widely used manufacturing processes for plastic parts, is also one of the most complex. From tool design to process validation, there are countless opportunities for ...